Over 325 years have passed since our early colonists arrived in the Penn's Neck area. Our Township has changed its name several times. Quihawkin, Kinseyville, Biddle's, and Cravens Ferry are names unfamiliar to the residents of Pennsville today. Today we are known as the Township of Pennsville.

Shortly after the Swedes and Finns settled in Wilmington, Delaware in 1638, they migrated across the Delaware River into New Jersey where they found the area more suited to farming for those who were not interested in the trade business. The majority of the Finns settled near the Finn's Point Lighthouse, and the Swedes near the area that had at one time been called Churchtown.